Obstacles to decision making in Agile software development teams

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1239-1254

  Drury, Meghann ^a   Conboy, Kieran ^b   Power, Ken ^c  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile decision making; Agile project management; Agile software development; Case study; Decision making; Decision obstacles; Focus group; Iteration decisions; Iteration Planning; Iteration Review; Retrospective; Scrum; Software engineering; Team decisions

Indexed keywords

AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; DECISION OBSTACLES; FOCUS GROUP; ITERATION DECISIONS; RETROSPECTIVE; SCRUM; TEAM DECISION;

DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84859527670     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.01.058     Document Type: Article

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